Discovering Who I Am

I have always tended towards doubting who I am; questioning and second-guessing what is real and authentic in me and what I am entitled to claim as real in me. I have tended towards emulating the things I see in others that resonate with me rather than just being that unique creation that I am. I will try to make a video I am producing look like another rather than trusting my vision. I will tend to copy someone else’s design, and when I do create something original, I don’t allow it to be as valid as someone else’s original idea. As much as Solomon was right in Ecclesiastes 1:9 when he wrote “there is nothing new under the sun?”, I believe that God has made you and me unique as a snow flake (many of which are falling outside as I write this) and there is no one else that thinks or creates like you do, or like I do. We need to trust God in us and be who He made us to be.